Murdoch toys with idea of Kindle-like reader

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Where will the mogul strike next? Doesn’t seem like he’s yearning right now for The New York Times, which is doing battle with a guild that doesn’t want to give up lifetime job guarantees of 190-odd Boston Globe staffers.

Instead, New York Post’s Peter Lauria reports, Rupert Murdoch has set his sights on building a Kindle-like device that will deliver content from News Corp publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and the NY Post. The device would also offer content from TV shows and movies that come from the News Corp stable. Murdoch sees it as a way of charging for content on the Web, rather than giving it away free as much of the publishing industry has (which, needless to say, is a big source of current troubles).

The global team assembled for this purpose consists of Murdoch himself, son James, Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and News Corp’s new chief of digital operations, Jonathan Miller, the paper says.

Maybe Murdoch will show the struggling newspaper industry the way out of the morass. Keep an eye on:

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Anupreeta Das is a New York-based reporter covering technology, media and telecoms deals. She has previously written for The Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and many Indian publications. She is the 2009 recipient of a Society of Business Editors and Writers breaking news award for her coverage of Microsoft's failed bid for Yahoo. Das also won a 2006 Foreign Press Association award and an Overseas Press Club scholarship. Das holds graduate degrees in journalism and international political economy from Boston University and the London School of Economics. She speaks fluent Hindi, Assamese and a little Mandarin.